Help on reading Wehrpasses

[WerderBremen]

hey guys,

i just bought two Wehrpasses over the weekend at the Raleigh militaria show...i was never really interested in them before. But i took the dive and i havent put them down ever since. Translating this german script is nearly impossible, but its really awesome.

anyways, looking for some help on a few things...I was looking at one of my guys battle entries and i see that they end in 42 after fighting around Moskau, but he was not KIA until 44...(cool thing is i saw he died on april 18th and on april 20th he was postumously(sp) awarded the War Merit Cross) so i would like to know what his unit did for the rest of 42,43, and early 44....but i cant understand what his unit was..
He was an artillerymen, and i see that on march 6, 1941 he was transferred and was with them until his death on april 18, 1944...what unit is this?

[WerderBremen]

i just dont understand how to determine what unite that is...

[Eric JB]

Without seeing the other half of the unit page it will be a problem to answer your question here !

yours friendly

Eric-Jan Bakker

[Eric JB]

Don't know why but now I can see the whole unit page.....no not drunk !

Here is some information for your Artillery Regiment and its Division.

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...onen/206ID.htm

yours

Eric-Jan

[WerderBremen]

so is it the 4th artillery of the 206th regiment?

[Hank C.]

so is it the 4th artillery of the 206th regiment?

I believe it's more correctly called the 4th Company, 206 Artillery Rgt, which was subordinated to 206 Inf Div. Prior to that time (May of 41) he was with various other units, such as the Artillery Ersatz Abteilung (replacement companies), Artillery Rgt 241, Artillery ERsatz Abteilung 228, and a couple of others.
Plenty to look into there...

best
Hank

[jmark]

I believe it's more correctly called the 4th Company, 206 Artillery Rgt, which was subordinated to 206 Inf Div. Prior to that time (May of 41) he was with various other units, such as the Artillery Ersatz Abteilung (replacement companies), Artillery Rgt 241, Artillery ERsatz Abteilung 228, and a couple of others.
Plenty to look into there...

best
Hank

I hope you don't think I'm being pedantic but it's 4. Batterie (4th Battery), not 4th Company.

All the best,
Jason

[Hank C.]

Jason: No problemo, thanks for the correction!

best
Hank

[Simon O.]

Just a note to say that an Ersatz (replacement) or Ausbildungs (training) unit was a training and depot unit. Usually located back in Germany and was kind of like a home base unit a soldier did his initial training with or returned to for various reasons such as recovering from wounds or illness or courses etc.

The exception are feld erstaz units, these were generally field replacement units belonging to a division and would accompany a division in the field.

[Douglas Jr.]

Werder,

There is a good website that gives several tips about how to read a Wehrpass:
http://www.percy.clara.net/

Check the"guide" page. It really worth a visit.

Good look on your search!!

Douglas

[WerderBremen]

Douglas,
thanks for the tip! i used that site the moment i started trying to read them!